adj
Meaning 1
Good-looking or pleasing to the eye; handsome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: ill-favored
Standard Lemma guide
well-favoured
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Meaning 2
pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion- Thackeray- Lillian Hellman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a fine-looking woman
- a good-looking man
- better-looking than her sister
- very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome
- our southern women are well-favored
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fine-looking, good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: краси́в (krasív) — handsome; pleasing to the eye
- Bulgarian: ху́бав (húbav) — handsome; pleasing to the eye
- German: gutaussehend — handsome; pleasing to the eye
- German: nett anzusehen — handsome; pleasing to the eye
- German: hübsch — handsome; pleasing to the eye
- Irish: dathúil — handsome; pleasing to the eye